Friday, June 20, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Summer Time!
We went down to Destin last week. I swear that is the most beautiful beach I have ever been on. We had a blast! Buried David and then Daddy. Ike Ike was the only one not sunburned cause he sat under the umbrella the whole time!!
Sammy enjoying cherries.
Our friends wanted a bigger pool so we got their old one. Love it! I told Nathan to take some pictures of the boys playing in it but this is the only one he took.
Ike Ike fell off his bike and got a pretty good noggin bonk! YES, he was in a helmet, but it was too small and riding too high on his head. We went out and bought him a new one that day. :)
On an unrelated note... we rented a few flicks this weekend. Loved them. Amazing grace is about William Wilberforce who abolished slavery in England and his mentor John Newton who penned Amazing Grace. Beautiful, very good.
And we rented Stardust... don't even rent this one, just go straight out and buy it!!! It was SO good, of course, I'm in to that kinda thing. And I lurved Mark Strong in it. I'll let you watch it and then you can figure out why! :P
cheers
Sammy enjoying cherries.
Our friends wanted a bigger pool so we got their old one. Love it! I told Nathan to take some pictures of the boys playing in it but this is the only one he took.
Ike Ike fell off his bike and got a pretty good noggin bonk! YES, he was in a helmet, but it was too small and riding too high on his head. We went out and bought him a new one that day. :)
On an unrelated note... we rented a few flicks this weekend. Loved them. Amazing grace is about William Wilberforce who abolished slavery in England and his mentor John Newton who penned Amazing Grace. Beautiful, very good.
And we rented Stardust... don't even rent this one, just go straight out and buy it!!! It was SO good, of course, I'm in to that kinda thing. And I lurved Mark Strong in it. I'll let you watch it and then you can figure out why! :P
cheers
Saturday, June 14, 2008
oman oman oman oman!!!!
So, we just paid a HUGE chunk on our van today. One more month and it will be ours for good! Paid off in a year, baby! (Sorry, this rather excites me!)
Friday, June 13, 2008
For Fun... Cause I like it...
You can skip through the songs by clicking on the little skip button (under the fm).
Oi.
Life's funny sometimes. I lead the music in Relief Society (the women's class) at church on Sundays and every week I give a 5 minute "Music Appreciation" moment. This week I wanted to play some of Mendelssohn's Scottish Symphony and I typed in a google search to give some facts about it... and guess what... it's playing TONIGHT at the Woodlands Pavilion in Houston. Yep, go figure. 10 minutes from where I used to live and it's playing there TONIGHT! Seriously... remember what I said about missing culture and such... yeah.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Why Not!?
Tag
How To Play This Game of Tag: Post these rules on your blog. List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog! (If you've already been tagged, feel free to ignore this.)
JOYS
1. Internet
2. Music
3. My family (not necessarily in that order... ::snerk::)
FEARS
1. Instability/Insecurity
2. Ginormous cockroaches
3. Presidential Elections
GOALS
1. Graduate Flight School
2. Find secure civilian or ARG job
3. Sell more cakes!!
CURRENT OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS
1. Duh... Harry Potter and HP Fanfiction (I KNOW already!! But maybe if she'd done a better job with the ending I wouldn't feel this WAY!!!!! )
2. Swimming in our new little pool.
3. Laundry, apparently, since I do so much of it...
RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME
1. I LOVE So You Think You Can Dance... my favorite TV show ever!!!
2. We just got a brand new bike trailer since the other dry rotted, and I am busting my butt to use it in the heat everyday!!
3. I love chocolate milk.
I TAG THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE
1. Leah
2. Doug
3. Terri
and anyone else who wants to... I'm all about sharing.
How To Play This Game of Tag: Post these rules on your blog. List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog! (If you've already been tagged, feel free to ignore this.)
JOYS
1. Internet
2. Music
3. My family (not necessarily in that order... ::snerk::)
FEARS
1. Instability/Insecurity
2. Ginormous cockroaches
3. Presidential Elections
GOALS
1. Graduate Flight School
2. Find secure civilian or ARG job
3. Sell more cakes!!
CURRENT OBSESSIONS/COLLECTIONS
1. Duh... Harry Potter and HP Fanfiction (I KNOW already!! But maybe if she'd done a better job with the ending I wouldn't feel this WAY!!!!! )
2. Swimming in our new little pool.
3. Laundry, apparently, since I do so much of it...
RANDOM FACTS ABOUT ME
1. I LOVE So You Think You Can Dance... my favorite TV show ever!!!
2. We just got a brand new bike trailer since the other dry rotted, and I am busting my butt to use it in the heat everyday!!
3. I love chocolate milk.
I TAG THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE
1. Leah
2. Doug
3. Terri
and anyone else who wants to... I'm all about sharing.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
JKR
So the "prequel" that JKR wrote about Sirius and James is now online. It auctioned yesterday for 25,000 pounds. (Wish I had 25,000 pounds!) It was written on a 3x5 card and is great fun! Man, I wish she WOULD write more of a prequel. I'd pay good money for it... as long as it promised to be better than Deathly Hallows, which was good and all, but not her best by any means...
http://www.waterstoneswys.com/
Click on the link 'Authors' in the upper right and choose JKR. It will take you to her story.
http://www.waterstoneswys.com/
Click on the link 'Authors' in the upper right and choose JKR. It will take you to her story.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Good times...
Ok, here goes...
We had an awesome week! We got back from our vacation yesterday afternoon, tired and covered in bug bites! Here is basically what we did: We left first thing Monday morning, packed up the car to the ceiling with food, and sleeping bags, and camping gear and headed north. We go to the Alabama Gold Camp http://www.alabamagoldcamp.com/ in the early afternoon after stopping for lunch. The website says "primitive camping". They were NOT kidding. It's a good thing I had 6 years of Girls' Camp under my belt! It was just a quaint little place that had once been a functioning gold mine but they now have it set up so that you can gold pan and dig for gems there. So we drove down the long dirt road to find a spot to put up our tent. Primitive, remember? So, eventually we found a spot along the river, where you pan, under a bunch of large trees. We thought it looked really nice and shady so we set up camp. We had bought our tent almost a year and a half ago so it was high time we break it in! It was very nice and went up quick, thankfully! Then daddy went and got us some water (they did have a bathroom and shower house, but it was about an uphill mile from our camp). So he went for water while I took tons of pics of the boys and got out the rest of our provisions. I honestly thought they would at least have had tables at the sites, but well, there were no sites so therefore no tables. I could have kicked myself for not having a table! I ended up using the cooler as a table and that wasn't so easy. Anyhow, then he took the boys down to the river and they started panning while I stayed up and started the fire and preparing food for dinner. We had steaks and beans and the boys had hot dogs (by choice). It had been awhile since I cooked over an open fire. I LOVE it. Yes, it is very hard work, and yes, it was VERY hot, but I still enjoyed it. I actually think I may have surprised my hubby. He kept apologizing that it was so primitive (there's that word again), but I really do get into it. I still don't like squatting in the woods, but a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do! Anyways, we holed up in our little tent all together and Isaac began to freak out. So he ended up on the air mattress with me while daddy took the floor and sleeping bags with David. Sammy was in the porta crib. There is no way I am going anywhere without that thing! It got kinda chilly during the night, but I had the boys trained that if they kept the tent zipped up during the day there would be less bugs, so we were primarily a bug free tent! We slept okay and got up and had cereal for breakfast. I had thought about making pancakes on the fire but didn't pack the stuff for it. I kinda wish I had. Oh well. The boys spent the day gold panning with Daddy while I scorched in the heat. We swam in the river and then went digging for gems with Daddy later. Then we made dinner and drove up to the shower house and got cleaned up and did some laundry. Who would think you would get so dirty after only 2 days of camping!? Then next day we packed up and drove to Atlanta. We were ready to leave. Nathan and I pretty much decided that camping is great, but we aren't doing it again like that until the boys are older. Primitive camping and gold panning is not much fun when you are spending most of it trying to chase your 15 month old around!
Our Camp Site
Sammy Camper
Ike Ike Camper
Playing in the tent
Big Dude Camper
Daddy Long Legs (HUUGE!)
Daddy Pans for gold... yes, he found some!
Coming back from peeing on the corn.
Whose dirty children are those!!?!!
Hercules hated the gnats.
A High Banker, helps you pan quicker.
"Is this gold??"
Miner Mike
Sam having a snack.
Funny Miner
East Alabama (Talladegga National Forest)
Naval Air Station cool radar planes.
Mom n boys at the aquarium
Sammy got tired and bored.
And the Whale spewed mommy forth...
David and the jellies.
Garden Eels... These things are SO cool!!!
After the aquarium.
On top of Stone Mountain. The boys LOVED riding the cable car to the top! Mommy, not so much...
Chasin' ducks in the pedal boats.
Our turn!
Sammy on Stone Mountain.
Waiting for his boat to come in.
After Stone Mountain.
Good traveller
I have tons more but these are the highlites for now!
We had an awesome week! We got back from our vacation yesterday afternoon, tired and covered in bug bites! Here is basically what we did: We left first thing Monday morning, packed up the car to the ceiling with food, and sleeping bags, and camping gear and headed north. We go to the Alabama Gold Camp http://www.alabamagoldcamp.com/ in the early afternoon after stopping for lunch. The website says "primitive camping". They were NOT kidding. It's a good thing I had 6 years of Girls' Camp under my belt! It was just a quaint little place that had once been a functioning gold mine but they now have it set up so that you can gold pan and dig for gems there. So we drove down the long dirt road to find a spot to put up our tent. Primitive, remember? So, eventually we found a spot along the river, where you pan, under a bunch of large trees. We thought it looked really nice and shady so we set up camp. We had bought our tent almost a year and a half ago so it was high time we break it in! It was very nice and went up quick, thankfully! Then daddy went and got us some water (they did have a bathroom and shower house, but it was about an uphill mile from our camp). So he went for water while I took tons of pics of the boys and got out the rest of our provisions. I honestly thought they would at least have had tables at the sites, but well, there were no sites so therefore no tables. I could have kicked myself for not having a table! I ended up using the cooler as a table and that wasn't so easy. Anyhow, then he took the boys down to the river and they started panning while I stayed up and started the fire and preparing food for dinner. We had steaks and beans and the boys had hot dogs (by choice). It had been awhile since I cooked over an open fire. I LOVE it. Yes, it is very hard work, and yes, it was VERY hot, but I still enjoyed it. I actually think I may have surprised my hubby. He kept apologizing that it was so primitive (there's that word again), but I really do get into it. I still don't like squatting in the woods, but a girl's got to do what a girl's got to do! Anyways, we holed up in our little tent all together and Isaac began to freak out. So he ended up on the air mattress with me while daddy took the floor and sleeping bags with David. Sammy was in the porta crib. There is no way I am going anywhere without that thing! It got kinda chilly during the night, but I had the boys trained that if they kept the tent zipped up during the day there would be less bugs, so we were primarily a bug free tent! We slept okay and got up and had cereal for breakfast. I had thought about making pancakes on the fire but didn't pack the stuff for it. I kinda wish I had. Oh well. The boys spent the day gold panning with Daddy while I scorched in the heat. We swam in the river and then went digging for gems with Daddy later. Then we made dinner and drove up to the shower house and got cleaned up and did some laundry. Who would think you would get so dirty after only 2 days of camping!? Then next day we packed up and drove to Atlanta. We were ready to leave. Nathan and I pretty much decided that camping is great, but we aren't doing it again like that until the boys are older. Primitive camping and gold panning is not much fun when you are spending most of it trying to chase your 15 month old around!
We got to Atlanta around lunch time and checked in at the Naval Air Station where we were staying. Military has it's perks ($38/night for a suite!) Anyways, it's a nice place but I still get squeamish in certain hotels and such. It's just not as clean as I would normally like. You know? Anyways, we went and saw Nathan's cousin and dropped Hercules and the boys off with her and Nathan and I went to the Temple. It was nice. The next day, we did the Atlanta Aquarium which is supposedly the largest in the world but I could have sworn I had been in bigger (also a military perk... cheap tickets to otherwise overpriced venues). But we saw lots of cool stuff and David really enjoyed seeing all the things he had just learned about in school. ($36 to feed us in the Aquarium cafe! UGH!)
That night we found a little Brazilian place to eat. It was yummy!
Friday we went to Stone Mountain and had a BLAST! It was so stinking HOT! But we loaded up on water and gatorade and had so much fun!! We didn't even get to do everything before they closed, but we had fun getting in what we could and it left us wanting more. We decided not to stay for the Laser Show since we were all pretty much beat.
All in all it was a really nice time and we enjoyed visiting with Nathan's cousin and her family. She was so sweet to watch Hercules for us and our boys so we could go to the Temple.
Sammy started sleeping through the night just a few days before we left so I was very worried that he was gonna get all messed up on the trip, but he slept through every night while on our trip, even camping! YAY! Moving him into his own room was a GOOD MOVE!
Anyways, now I'll overload you with pictures!!
Our Camp Site
Sammy Camper
Ike Ike Camper
Playing in the tent
Big Dude Camper
Daddy Long Legs (HUUGE!)
Daddy Pans for gold... yes, he found some!
Coming back from peeing on the corn.
Whose dirty children are those!!?!!
Hercules hated the gnats.
A High Banker, helps you pan quicker.
"Is this gold??"
Miner Mike
Sam having a snack.
Funny Miner
East Alabama (Talladegga National Forest)
Naval Air Station cool radar planes.
Mom n boys at the aquarium
Sammy got tired and bored.
And the Whale spewed mommy forth...
David and the jellies.
Garden Eels... These things are SO cool!!!
After the aquarium.
On top of Stone Mountain. The boys LOVED riding the cable car to the top! Mommy, not so much...
Chasin' ducks in the pedal boats.
Our turn!
Sammy on Stone Mountain.
Waiting for his boat to come in.
After Stone Mountain.
Good traveller
I have tons more but these are the highlites for now!
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